Facing Criminal Issues

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Sample IL Criminal Cases

... Defendant Finis Leonard was convicted by a jury of the offenses of habitual armed criminal and
unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and sentenced to concurrent terms of imprisonment
of 30 years and 10 years, respectively. He appealed. We affirm. FACTS. ...

... were, therefore, admissible. Defendant also filed a motion in limine to preclude any
evidence of his 1998 conviction for criminal sexual assault, which had required him
to submit a DNA sample to be placed in a database. At the ...

... Justice FITZGERALD SMITH delivered the opinion of the court: Following a bench trial,
defendant Marcus Bailey (defendant) was convicted of one count of the offense of armed
habitual criminal and four counts of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. ...

... "Nonetheless," continued the appellate court, "a criminal defendant must at some point be
afforded the equivalent of direct review and an appellate advocate." After discussing this
court's holding in People v. Moore, 133 Ill.2d 331, 338, 140 Ill.Dec. ...